Dale Ghent writes: > On Jun 4, 2008, at 8:46 AM, James Carlson wrote: > > > Ceri Davies writes: > >> Do Sun really intend to port every single command known to man just > >> in case someone can't find it and "moves on" as a result? Even given > >> recent events, I don't think that's true. > > > > Not those known to man, just those known to Linuxman. > > So then where's the line being drawn? Would you duplicate Linux's / > proc so the Linuxman doesn't have to bother with learning ndd or kstat?
That's a darned good question, and one for which I have no answers. Another good one is the usual set of crufty things found in /etc -- are all of these supported? > If someone wants to boot Solaris, they should learn that there are > some differences. I'd tend to agree, except that I can't quite reconcile that with the desire to make OpenSolaris "familiar." (We've drifted far afield of the original case, so I've removed the case number from the subject line to prevent this from being archived there.) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
